Holocaust Survivors as Villains: The Self-Hatred of the Jewish Left

The callousness of this 25-year-old sex-and-celebrity blogger can’t be dismissed as ignorance, since she confesses to enduring the insufferable boredom of a “de rigueur exposure” to the ghastly nightmare of the Holocaust. She simply couldn’t find sympathy for those icky old people with their uncool tattoos, including those in her own family whom she holds in such contempt, anywhere in the blasted landscape of her soul; instead, she views them suspiciously as hypocritical and villainous. How cynical must one be to believe that “triumph of the human spirit” is merely an empty phrase? One has to wonder how representative she is of her generation, many of whom embrace a jaded, emotionally detached, hipster irony and treat just about everything as fodder for ridicule, including Anne Frank.

Breaking Bad is a TV series about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher named Walter White who turns to crime, making and selling drugs to provide for his family after he’s gone. In Breslaw’s disturbed mind, this somehow links that fictional character to real-life Holocaust survivors:

Walt and Breaking Bad express one of our most inherent psychological fallacies: the ability to do any number of consciously reprehensible things while persisting in considering ourselves the protagonist at all times. From world wars to breaking hearts, we cling to the destruction done to us in the past as a justification for the destruction we will cause in the future.

Besides being a complete misinterpretation of Breaking Bad, this is a substance-less and cynical argument. Her claim is that the Jews who escaped Hitler’s genocidal reach must be guilty of “reprehensible things” and continue to use it to justify their “conniving” selfishness. Breslaw is apparently more repulsed by their “extreme will to live” than by Hitler’s extreme will to murder them.

The greater outrage is not that a pathologically hateful young Jew trashed Holocaust survivors as self-promoting villains, but that a Jewish arts and culture magazine accepted her execrable musings for publication. Let Breslaw retreat into her shallow tabloid milieu and be forgotten; it is Tablet that ultimately must be held responsible for her stunningly offensive piece, chosen no doubt for its shock value. Deluged by hundreds of reader comments universally expressing outrage, editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse followed up two days later with a response in which she blathered on about the magazine exploring its responsibility to “Jewish communal discourse.” Her readers were not pacified by this non-apology apology; nor was Commentary, which condemned it as “self-referential, self-aggrandizing, and ultimately self-infatuated.”

In a time in which Jews once again find themselves the target of a genocidal, anti-Semitic ideology – Iran’s bombing of a busload of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is only the latest example – Jewish liberals such as those at Tablet who entertain such Jew-hating venom as Anna Breslaw’s piece are siding with their own enemy.

Mark Tapson, a Hollywood-based writer and screenwriter, is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He focuses on the politics of popular culture.

Terry

Such Jews as this are worse than non-Jews who support another Holocaust. Beneath contempt is perhaps the mos measured description I can find ot describe such Jews. Traitors to their own ethnicity, to civilised values, to society and the world, these would be equally appropriate.

There will be a day of reckoning, and trash like this girl and her Goebles style publication will be on the wrong side.

SHmuel HaLevi

Absolutely true. The unJews day of reckoning is barreling down on them. This time the capos will not be given any opportunity to do as their predecessors did in Europe.

http://frontpage richard sherman

She is a typical liberal Jew…today if you are a liberal Jew you are selfhating Jew…you hate your Jewishness and you hate Israel…That makes you a perfect modern liberal Jew

http://frontpage richard sherman

She represents the view of every member of J Street.

BS77

Another arrogant, stupid pseudo intellectual leftist moron….Ann Breslaw doesn't know it but she is disgusting beyond words and has no honor. Her shallow words and "hip" contempt for victims of the Holocaust reveals her as a pile of garbage. I urge her to read ALL BUT MY LIFE, by Gerda Weissman Klein…to get a notion of what actually transpired.. Then perhaps she will be shocked into regretting her words.

BS77

I have a feeling this Breslaw is unattractive….she is bitter and confused about her life, I am certain. Her remarks show a complete disconnect from understanding recent history. She must be very shallow….very poorly educated. She has absolutely no grasp of the WW II era,

Larry

She's not some much callous as mind numbingly stupid and willfully pig ignorant.

As someone who was taught at school by a Bergen-Belsen miracle survivor (July 1940-May 1945 in Nazi hands) my personal opinion is that every body who comes into contact with her, every time, every day, should bitch slap her.

~The Bible declares that God determined to keep His chosen people separated to Himself (Exodus 33:16; Leviticus 20:26; etc.) because He would bring them back into their land in the last days (Jeremiah 30:10; 31:8-12; Ezekiel 36:24, 35-38; etc.) prior to Messiah’s second coming.

Remember Tisha B'Av (July 29th 2012) Pray for Israel!

oldtimer

There are those among the Jews who are not of God. John 8:44 "Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do…….." And who was Jesus speaking to? Scribes and Pharisees, "holy" men. As it was, so it is. Rev. 2:9….they "claim" to be our brother Judah, but are of the synogogue of satan…..

oldtimer

In other words, there were betrayers even among the leaders in Jesus' time, and there are betrayers now. Israel belongs to Israel, God gave it to them. And as not only Christians, but all the world should support Israel.

κατεργάζομαι

Respectfully, oldtimer…….. The Second Chapter of Revelations is delivered to the "Seven Churches" –
of Christ. – – – It does Not refer to Israel.

The Seven Churches have a fourfold reference in eschatology.

These messages by their very terms go beyond the assemblies mentioned. However that does not extend into Israel. Your post is unclear to me.

Revelations 2:9 was directed to the Christian Church of Smyrna, as well as a "type" for a later historical period.

It does not reference the Jews.

oldtimer

Respectfully also, were there not 12 tribes of Israel, 10 of which were scattered, maybe I may not be as learned as you but I have always felt kinship with Israel because of this. If id did not refer to the Jews, than why does it say Judah?

oldtimer

What is written is a warning that all who claim to be Jews are not, but in their hearts are fakes.Those referenced in the above article are not true Jews, and I hope that is how you feel also.

I am very familiar with John's Revelation Chapter 2 message to the Seven Churches. His message to Smyrna, in verse 9 was the church under persecution. It characterizes the church under persecution from A.D. c. 100 -316

Maybe I did not understand your post.

Re parallel Bibles; I even have one with 30 translations. BUT, what is fascinating is that ALL versions are essentially the same except for those aberrant sects and cults who devise and re-arrange words to fit their doctrinal screed. ~ take care.

oldtimer

sorry, it says Jews,not Judah

oldtimer

Sometimes the mind and the fingers get tonque-tied.

Looking4Sanity

And that is "Josecanusee?" purpose. He's just pandering to the admins as a sort of mea culpa for earlier bad behavior. Plus, he's full of himself.

κατεργάζομαι

Replying to Looking4WorldlyApproval:

~ Whenever biblical Christians, think that things couldn’t possibly become more preposterous in Christendom, we read ignorant posts (like the one above) and we call to mind that the Scriptures tell us that a time will come when persons, (like Looking4Sanity) – "will not endure sound doctrine," and will corrupt the Word of God.

EXAMPLE: ~ 2 Timothy:4:3: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"

RE: his above post~Proverbs 14:9.
9 Fools mock at making amends for sin,
but goodwill is found among the upright.
~ New International Version (NIV)

I forgave him in a second.

κατεργάζομαι

Looking4SecularApproval – "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. —Philippians 1:9-11

Notice that he wanted them to be “filled with the knowledge” of God’s will, “in all wisdom and spiritual understanding…

This prayer, however, would be so many empty words unless those for whom he is praying desire to have a walk worthy of the Lord and pleasing to Him.

You act as a tare.

κατεργάζομαι

Without biblical discernment, Looking4Sanity is “adrift at sea”—he is heading for a rocky coast and his pending shipwreck. I defend those he takes with him!

HERE is the IRONY regarding "Looking4Sanity" –

He is largely ignorant of the religious movements, and their practices; he is ignorant of the Bible (in context), and he ignores false teachings,…. along with their false teachers who are seducing multitudes of Christians today.

κατεργάζομαι

Replying to oldtimer's post: "There are those among the Jews who are not of God." I think I understand your position.

Remember that the Bible declares that God determined to keep His chosen people separated to Himself (Exodus 33:16; Leviticus 20:26; etc.)

……..because He would bring them back into their land in the last days (Jeremiah 30:10; 31:8-12; Ezekiel 36:24, 35-38; etc.) prior to Messiah’s second coming.

That prophecy and promise, so long awaited, was fulfilled in the rebirth of Israel in her Promised Land in 1948, nearly 1900 years after the final diaspora at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Roman armies of Titus.

This restoration of a nation after 25 centuries is utterly astonishing, a phenomenon without parallel in the history of any other peoples and inexplicable by any natural means, much less by chance”

κατεργάζομαι

The Arabs and Islamists remake history to serve their own interests, and their tales of woe and suffering are in reality intended to lull people into a state of pacifism to enable their eventual domination and subjugation of the world.

That was the strategy Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda director, used in his war against the Jews of Europe and it worked.

The Arabs may not be very original but they certainly have figured out how to seize upon a good idea and run with it! Comparing the plight of the Jews of Germany to that of the Arab-"Palestinians" was a stroke of genius. A very BIG Lie… but brilliant nevertheless!

"The creation of Israel is "Palestine Holocaust Day" and the Palestinian People
were subjected to the worst Holocaust in history."
-Words spoken by Yassir Arafat May 10, 1997-

Satan is a Liar!

Drakken

My friend in the world of instant comunication, the natives of Europe are getting restless and here in the US things are go to hell in a handbasket as well, the rise of nationalism is comming and the left is scared to death as they should be, for there will be war and it will be us of the West against muslims and their leftist enablers, that day is but a heartbeat away.

SCREW SOCIALISM

The false prophet muhammed/mohammad is a LIAR!

ElFel

Jew trashed Holocaust survivors as self-promoting villains, but that a Jewish arts and culture magazine accepted her execrable musings for publication

Yes. And they hate Israel.And the very same people also seem to hate us Poles (calling us vicious anti-Semites).And apparently they also hate Jews….but they do like themselves,right? I mean, how pathological can it get?

★FALCON★

Self-hating Jews like this bitch are nothing new. Many were Nazi's collaborators, like George Soros / György Schwartz. Soros was asked about his time with the Nazi's and replied that he had no regrets and it was the best time of his life. He further said – if he didn't do it, someone else would.

These haters need to be repudiated at every turn and shunned in the work place and in open society.

Phil

What a tragic story…..as a half Jew, I can maybe shed some light, on this problem….my father is Jewish, and divorced my mother at around two years old, but as her only child she took me and moved back to New York, but because my father was wealthy, I became a source of her support.

But, I recently figured out, that she probably hated my guts “sub- consciously” because of unresolved anti-semitic stereotypes…try, instead of being so critical of her; try to understand the pain she most be going through, and struggling with in a culture in America that has become in many ways anti-semitic; someone, like me I can cope with it, because I became a ultra liberal pacifist, way before the Muslim invasion, so I'm trained to deal with large social evils such as the wave of Muslim anti- semitism that has covered our nation in it's sewage.

There is such a thing as the Stockholm syndrome.

FPF

Sorry to hear that your have a bad experience related to human's sin (Rom 3:23). Guess that's the reason why you don't like Jews. But you need to forget your father for your own sake, otherwise your bitterness will not only affect you adversely but people around you. You can not devour a poison and expect the person you hate to die from it. Bring your sorrow to your God and your Father in Heaven will give you comfort and peace that your father in flesh can't.

FPF

I mean forgive your father :>

Phil

Thank you for your suggestions; I think you misunderstood me, I was thinking that because my family had divorced; that I needed to come to terms with the part of my family that loved me, although the only ones, were my grandfather, and my grandmother's brother that wrote the Will that included me in it…I did a ton of research, so I came to respect my Jewish half, not hate it because though they were wealthy, they cared for me and others…I won't go into all the specifics, because I could write a book about it.

I would have changed my Jewish name; if I had thought no one loved me at all in my family.

B Goldstein

Identifying with Anne Frank is the latest chic –maybe not so latest — among the phonies This woman is beyond despicable. Just one correction, Mark Tapson, for the sake of accuracy: Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz where she "barely escaped the gas chambers." She later died of typhus in Bergen Belsen.

Miriam

"and in grade school I received the de rigueur exposure to the horror – visiting geriatric men and women with numbers tattooed on their arms, completing assigned reading like The Diary of Anne Frank and Night."

My thought is: Did she receive any Jewish education? Did she learn Jewish history? Was she taught the Bible?
I think not. I think all she knows about being Jewish is that she is a part of a people who suffered in the Holocaust and she wants out from that.. Without knowing the historical, religious, philosophical and economic context her small mind tried to make sense of the devastation caused to the lives of her relatives and came to the conclusion that they could not have survived if they had not been culpible in some way.

It is very sad. Her parents probably thought they were doing well by her in her education. But in fact they cut her off from a four millenial history. She is Jewish In Name Only – as so many other of the Leftist Jews of her generation.

And just as she was denied a knowledge of the background, all American children are being denied a knowledge of their country's history. From grade school to college the courses have been removed. And we are seeing the same kind of hatred for America and its way of life.

To disparage the 'will to live' is to place oneself in the company of suicide bombers. It is diametrically opposed to a basic premise of Judaism.

Moses said: I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live. He would not have had to make this statement if there were not others in his time who, because of religion or philosophy, chose a cult of death. It is this will to live, to prepare for the future, to invest in children and in ventures that is responsible for success in the endless struggle against entropy.

marios

It is tragedy for G-d chosen people that Jewish establishment betrays them. Those Jewish traitors of their own people are not big numbers but they exist. On the other hand is any nation is perfect? Any nation has their own heroes and their own villains. For anti-Semites Jewish traitors are a great gift to justify their anti-Semitism.
It is applicable to Muslims overall and to Palestinians mostly as they use Leftists Jews who betray their own Jewish people as very important weapon in ideological war against Israel, against Jews. But what you want from Leftists, communists, socialists (which are almost identical in meaning) ? They are Marxists who takes care about their own interests independent of their nationality, ethnicity, etc.

http://www.facebook.com/aj.weberman AJ Weberman

You put down Tablet Magazine but Frontpage and Tablet both employ LaRouche mole David Goldman

Chiggles

Interesting. I have detected a whiff of LaRouchiness here at times, though stronger in years past.

kong.ming

Can't you just see her in school "God dammit, why didn't you go to the ovens. I don't want to hear it. I've got cramps today."

WTF???

If anything Walter resembles a modern day Nazi shown by his:
complete amorality with reason driven only by science
disregard for human life
desperate need for control
manufacturing meth
greed

And his worst crimes, like blowing up Gus and poisoning children occurred when he was cancer free. The best guys in that show anyways are Saul, Hank, Mike and Jesse.

Brady

This is not really about the Jews. It is about Anna Breslaw and her own psychopathology of self-hatred. Her unwarranted and undeserved vile attack on the innocent victims of the Hallocaust reveals a severely cold and unfeeling individual incapable of compassion or empathy. She is a Narsicist of the first order. Such hate-filled ramblings should not be treated as serious discourse. It should be identified for what it is — the psychopatholoy of a spiritually bankrupt individual.

Looking4Sanity

Bingo. But the question remains. Why would an organization publish such garbage? It is their motivations that need scrutinizing.

Gizelle

Breslaw is a sad example of what I call… the "walking dead"…they live, and walk about…without a beating heart. Remember as a small child my father showing me the pictures of the people that fell victim to Hitler's evil. Stacks of bodies…stacked as wood…someone's mother, father, daughter, son…someone's child…each a human being with a name. I wept at the horror. Hitler, himself, said "if you tell a big enough lie long enough, and tell it frequently enough…it will be believed." Is this Breslaw's intent…lie about the evil…to protect and cover its very existence? She is one of Satan's puppets. Some are used willingly by evil, as they are truly the "walking dead." And, Breslaw, is a perfect example of this as she lives out her life with the character of a deceiver, and a child…of the "father of all lies."

Western Spirit

My only daughter is named Miriam because my mother was named Miriam by her half Cherokee mother. I agree with Miriam's post entirely, not because her name reminds me of family, but because it was spot on.

My Jewish husband couldn't stand to even watch anything that depicted hatred of Jews. Evidently this woman doesn't realize the virus of Jew hatred is still alive and she could be the next victim. As a Christian I know I am on the victim's list this time around.

JeremyBeadleshand

What a reprehensible waste of human skin that woman is.when the zombie apocalypse finally comes around I hope she gets eaten by zombie Holocaust survivors.

Just her mentioning breaking bad makes me enjoy the show less, and that should be a crime in itself. not to mention her somehow twisting it into a commentary on how evil the Jews are for not wanting to die.

Mo_

I am speechless.

This attitude really is like a mental illness. How do such people even function in the world day to day? I'm at a loss here.

Hi people

Many are now falling into this trap:

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy …

“Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God …

“Led away with divers lusts,

“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:1–2, 4, 6–7).

I suggest anyone who hate the Jews/Israel (many times this boundary is really interchangeable) visits at least one Nazi Concentration Camp, including in Germany (many Germans, esp. from the hard Left are denying that such camps exist in Germany). I myself had visited the Sachsenhausen Nazi Concentration Camp not far from Berlin (English translation is everywhere in the camp), and was almost absolutely shocked by the stark real horrors of it all (despite having watched films such as Schindler’s List) – especially the Butchering rooms and the small ovens (thus Jewish victims were cut up to fit into the ovens). And then to meet Germans or anyone who try to deny such horror or erase such history from Germany – this should not be accepted! Israel and the Jews must fight to keep the Jewish Holocaust history alive, especially in German/European’s schools and Integration classes and texts for immigrants (especially from Jew-hating Islamic land), so that such barbarism never happen again! Especially many Left/Socialist and Muslim fanatics in Germany/Europe have joined up to aggressively demonise the Jews through demonising Israel!

YetWave

What a vile take on humanity this woman has. Her article in Tablet is a masterpiece of utter callousness and a jumble of conflated metaphor. It's a complete piece of trash, on the intellectual level of Elvis sightings and marriages to aliens. In the journalistic race for the questionable prize of which Jew can most odiusly defame Jews, Breslaw noses out Chomsky, Finkelstein and Michael Lerner with the appearance of this anti-human smut in a publication that is off my list for good.

marios

She is the product of liberalism. Liberalism is religion of the most cynical hypocrites, mostly villains who posed them self in contrary light using false names, ideas, etc. liberalism is mental disorder as well. She is sick and should be treated in mad house hospital. But such insanity is paid off well by petro dollars, by G. Soros money and alike resources. Our country in danger as she is just symptom of illness and illness is Marxism which Democrats try to impose on us.

Ghostwriter

Anna Breslaw is Schlomotion in female garb. Her little "essay" is nothing but the contemptible,hate-filled ramblings of an angry,self-absorbed brat. She deserves the condemnation she got and I think she deserves more. She should be grateful her grandparents survived or she wouldn't be here to write her sickening nonsense. I know I shouldn't say this but I hope her family disowns her. After what she wrote,she deserves it.

Schlomotion

Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel.

Ronald Johnston

The real Jewish people need to send all the so-called Jews who are causing all the trouble back to Russia or wherever they came from!!!!!

Socialist Bill

Can someone help me answer this question? I know what the Nazis did to the Jews was bad and all, but why does this holocaust get all of the attention (and capatilaized)? Aren't all genocides worth remembering? How about the Armenian Genocide? The genocide of Native Americans by white European settlers? The African genocide during the slave trade? The present Israeli genocide of the Palestinians? I could go on, but my point is that all human life is equally special.

BS77

You blithely speak of the "present Israeli genocide of the Palestinians"…you are an IDIOT. There are over 1.5 million Muslims living within Israel….and most would prefer to live there than anywhere else….Yes, there has been military conflict between Israel and the terrorists from Gaza etc etc…..but show me one instance of genocide….you can't because you are simply making up lies…..like most of the lunatic left.

kong.ming

What happened to the Native Americans was not genocide. It was the result of "virgin land". The same thing happened to the Europeans by the Mongols with the black plague.

There was no African genocide. There was the African slave trade, where the majority of slaves were captured due to the result of tribal war between Africans and brought into the Arab slave trade which has existed since prehistory and continues to modern day.

What's ironic about your comment is you call for remembering all genocide, yet conveniently forget the leftist systematic mass murders like Ukraine, Cambodia, China, as well as the political murders in Cuba and modern Venezuela.

Lan Astaslem

"genocide of the palestinians" are you for real? those death lovers multiply like cockroaches.

FPF

If she knew Jezebel's fate (2 King 9:36,37), she would not associate herself with Jezebel. Or would she?

SCREW SOCIALISM

Drop Anna Breslaw in Tahrir Square Egypt – with a Star of David painted on her.

Problem solved.
.

Phil

Is it actually that seething with hate?…it put shivers through me what you said….because, a few weeks ago, I seen what looked like those same protesters in NYC …if it is that dangerous… I wish the State of
Israel would put out terror alert warnings, for those that the Muslims, would see as being Jews in the United States.

Phil

Amazing, a few weeks ago I seen group that looked like like a Muslim Brotherhood group (complete with Islamic or Arab flags) which is banned in Russia because of its militancy and terrorism… literally marching running down a street in NYC.

Someone, around a a few years ago, tried to talk me into going on demonstration; but my intuition said no; then another person a few years ago…a Muslim asked me to go on a demonstration, but my intuition said no….I'm so glad I said no twice,..If I had said yes, I might not be here today.

Schlomotion

This woman is a genius. Kudos to Mr. Tapson, who through his ceaseless misogyny for Israel, advertises, albeit negatively, another good critical thinker. Ms. Breslaw is so right. Stealing the boots off a man and eating his bones while lying about your cellmates and later using this to guilt your offspring for cheaper Cheerios is not "triumph of the spirit," it is rank human mammalian animal atavism and self-interested savagery. Otherwise, FPM would be fibbing when they vilify George Soros.

Carl Sagan would be proud to see Elie Wiesel reduced to the Far Side cartoon that he is, a man who like feeder crickets at the pet store, nibbles the limbs of his fellows in a musky darkened tank, reliving his memory with more pathos and exaggeration each time, embroidering nothingness and fiddling sad songs with his back. Cheers to Ms. Breslaw for calling foul on all of that survivor smut peddling.

Stern

Let's try an experiment. Let's recreate Auschwitz-like conditions exclusively for slow-brain (now, apparently, no-brain) and see how he comports himself.

When even Nakba tells this idiot to give it a rest, you have to know how bad his Jew-baiting has become.

Touchstone

So what I take from your post is that the Jews you hate the most are the ones who suffered terrible atrocities and lived to tell about it. Nice. (In another life you must have been a camp guard.) I actually admire Elie Wiesel that much more now, knowing how much he drives you mad. I hope FPM features more articles about him and other survivors.

You've set a very, very low bar for "genius" (no wonder you believe you're going to accomplish great things!). What you call "genius" is what Tapson rightly calls "execrable musings" (an apt description of your own ramblings). A hateful creature speculates that the people who survived the camps are the worst among us (those who "actually fulfilled the stereotype"), and like a trained seal you reflexively applaud this unscientific, unprovable, addle-brained hypothesis and deem it the work of "genius". (sigh) Genius has never meant so little.

You never stop to think that her premise might be flawed. You blindly accept her speculations because they condemn the same people you like to slander. You just can't resist the temptation to jump on the Wiesel-bashing bandwagon. You don't mind writing thousands and thousands of words deconstructing the Israeli request for a minute of silence at the Olympics, but Breslaw's sewage you swallow without hesitation. And you never for a moment think of condemning the Nazi monsters that forced innocent people into a purely survivalist mode in the first place. No, you focus only on what you think the great experiment in genocide teaches us about the lowly Jew. Like the thoughtless Breslaw, you prize any hasty rush to judgment that confirms your stubborn prejudice.

You're so very selective in how you apply whatever paltry aptitude for critical thinking you possess. Seething ethnic hatred will do that to a person. Breslaw is Pavlov, this article is the bell, and you're the salivating dog.

Schlomotion

I don't hate any Jews. I don't know where you keep coming up with that preposterous idea. I simply disagree quite strenuously with some of them. Ultimately, yes, Ms. Breslaw is a genius because in a vast room full of demented Zionist ideologues, she has covered her mouth and nose and gagged quickly to the exit to find the fresh air. Then she rather humorously and explicitly told the tale. She earns my esteem for that. She was so good to punch a hole in the cult of suffering and the (Marxist, really) interpretation of Nietzsche that that which does not kills me makes me stronger. Sometimes that which does not kill you, simply maims you and leaves you a troglodyte, or as Mr. Breslaw aptly put it, a "sheisse… because every group has a few… conniving, indestructible, taking and taking." Bravo to her words. Your response is to proclaim her musings execrable and flawed instead of philosophical and refreshing. You have tried to claim ethnic hatred as the basis for the criticism, but self-pitying bunghole and con artist is not a race or ethnicity, it is a profession. To scourge that professional is not ethnic or racial in any way.

Touchstone

I see. I suppose any living witness to the Nazi genocide is a "self-pitying bunghole" and a "con artist". They should all just shut up and stop frustrating the plans of Holocaust deniers, lest they be considered shysters. I suppose that Wiesenthal, who lost around 90 relatives to the Nazis, should never have tried to bring any of them to justice, even though nobody else in the whole world gave a damn.

According to you:

Wiesel is a villain for surviving and telling the tale.

Wiesenthal is a villain for pursuing Nazi murderers.

Breslaw is a hero for her "refreshing" and "philosophical" musings that Holocaust survivors represent the worst among Jews.

Morality doesn't get much more warped and twisted than this. You're scum, Bowelmotion. Truly scum. And you revel in it.

"I don't know where you keep coming up with that preposterous idea."

From over a thousand posts, that's where. I don't know where you keep coming up with your feeble denials.

"I simply disagree quite strenuously with some of them"

In the same way that Goebbels and Mengele did, perhaps?

Schlomotion

You do that thing where if somebody disagrees with a Jew you scream "help! someone is committing genocide against me!" It's the same as when somebody contradicts a campus feminist and she screams "help! somebody is raping me!" It does no good to point out that women have been raped in the past, or that in theory women can be raped. That doesn't make disagreeing with such a woman turn me into Son of Sam or Genghis Khan any more than disagreeing with charlatans like Wiesel makes me Goebbels.

Touchstone

I'm not screaming any such thing, and I'm bloody tired of having to point out when you're shamelessly distorting something I say to make another specious point. Obviously what I'm saying is that you're full of hate, so it's laughable to pretend that you "simply disagree" with Jews when in fact what you communicate is such disdain and hate it is indeed reminiscent of the garbage purveyed by Der Sturmer's masterminds. Plus you're so obtuse you didn't even grasp the fact that I was using a device known as a "callback" by mentioning the names of the same two Nazis you yourself used. A pile of molasses would cotton on faster than you. Goodness.

P.S. You're the charlatan, not Wiesel.

Schlomotion

I just think you can't fathom how someone can have an antithetical view to those held by certain Jews. It's not supposed to happen!

Foolster41

Where could people be getting this crazy idea from that you're an anti-Semite? it's baffling! Maybe your use of phrases accusing Jews of "eating bones" which is near identical to the sorts of Jew-as-monster imagery used in Nazi and soviet communist propaganda, and is still the sort of propaganda used in the middle east? Nah, Maybe it's because you're praising someone who is calling holocaust victims "villains", who contenues the stereotype of Jews and connivers (which you praise)? Can't be! Maybe it's your hostility to the the Jewish state, which has every right to exist and give more rights than any muslims naiton is the target of a number of genocidal wars and thousands of terrorist attacks? Couldn't be!

I have no idea! Baffling!!

Schlomotion

Ah, but I am not an antisemite. An antisemite exhibits belief or behavior hostile toward Jews just because they are Jewish. I never do that.

Foolster41

Riiiight! I quote a number of actions that are clearly "hostile toward Jews just because they are Jewish" (particularly your anti-semetic imagery of "bone eating" and your one-sided hostility to the Jewish state) you can't deny it, so you pretend it's not there!

Schlomotion

Oh my goodness! Why can't I have two-sided hostility to the Jewish state? Why not a two-sided solution? Why can't I have a hostility toward the Jewish state that puts me in favor of the Jewish state? Or don't I?

Touchstone

Sure you do. You exhibit such behavior all the time. You're not just disagreeing "strenuously" with a few columnists and posters. You make sweeping, damning statements about Jews, Judaism and Israel. You always say that "Israelis are bad people" and that "Israel is a bad country". You've listed qualities you hate in Jews, like "obnoxious". You've called Jews "inconsequential people". You've said disparagingly of Jews, "Regale me with what there is to envy". The only columnists who move you to violent rhetoric are Jews, such as Ben Shapiro (whose "neck" you want to "ring"). You shy away from criticizing enemies of Jews and Israel. You always side with anti-Jewish bigots and critics. You blame Jews for making the USA "uninhabitable". When you get stopped at a checkpoint, you blame the Jews. You want Iran to have nukes, even though you know they support terrorists and antisemites , and hold Holocaust denial conferences, and even antisemitic cartoon contests, and you know what anti-Israel rhetoric they spout. You've expressed admiration for Henry Ford, America's most notorious antisemite, a man who inspired Hitler and the Nazis (and received the highest civilian honors from them too). You laud a creature who condemns and defames Holocaust survivors, calling her a "genius". You condemn Wiesenthal for his efforts, a man who heroically stood alone in his quest to track down Nazi murderers. You blame Jews like a reflex because you consider Jews villains to begin with. That's why you blamed all of Muhammad's hate on the Jews themselves. And on and on and on. Truly, on and on and on!

It's not just what you say explicitly, but what you imply. If Wiesel and Wiesenthal and every pro-Israel columnist you've read are such evil villains, you're implying that you're OK with Nazis brutalizing Jews, and you're OK with those same Nazis escaping justice, and you're OK with discrediting anyone who works to support Israel, meaning your aim is to see Israel fall. And you never decried what happened to the Israelis in Bulgaria. Instead, you condemned an author for hyperbolically linking it with the Holocaust. Your callousness where Jews are concerned is palpable.

The sweeping, damning statements about Jews, Judaism and Israel are just common sense. They are like a nice, polished baseball bat for when I am making a correct and accurate point and you wob up a greaseball of collective self-pity and stolen outrage so I can smack that baby out of the park.

I am sure I learned the word "canard" from Abe Foxman, who uses it to mean "any statement about real actions by a Jew which can be discredited by linking it to a sweeping racist statement about the Jews uttered by Hitler, Goebbels, Wagner, Luther or the ancient Romans." Really, a canard, means to half-sell a duck, meaning relay a false, unfounded, or otherwise baseless belief. So really, for years someone like Abe Foxman has been slapping a stamp tax on communication and labeling as treif, a whole lot of legitimate discourse. Hasbara is a canard.

Now it is 2012, and one of Mr. Foxman's most long time foes, Louis Farrakhan is invited by Rahm Emanuel to come to his office and discuss using the FOI to put down violence in Chicago. We are snugly back in the year 1997 at Cabrini Green, or 1989 in the same place, and the Hasbara press is flipping out that Farrakhan has to renounce his antisemitic statements, and Mayor Daley or Emanuel has to denounce his statements and enforce a boycott. No one says Mayor Daley has to renounce his corrupt machine politics, or that Rahm Emanuel has to denounce his father Benjamin Emanuel (aka Ezekiel Auerbach) who was a terrorist bus bomber for Irgun who assassinated Count Bernadotte, the UN envoy to Palestine. Nobody says Rahm Emanuel should use his given name, or denounce Irgun, or Jabotinsky, or Mussolini, or vilify the Mafia or utterly reject his past and apologize that his father after years of committing acts of terrorism came to the US to drop Rahm as an anchor baby in 1959.

You know who will probably get a get out of jail free card? Jon Pollard. Rod Blagojevich. All the people who lied us into the Iraq War. All the people who destroyed the central economy of the United States and then made off with bailout money. The people who are setting up predator drones to surveil Americans. Sheldon Adelson. Jon Corzine. Eliana Benador. Tony Hayward. Meir Abergil.

Nazis are such old news.

Ghostwriter

Schlomotion,you have a lot in common with Ms. Breslaw. You both lack the most basic empathy for others. Her paternal grandparents survived the Holocaust. Unfortunately,their lessons were lost on her. I wouldn't be surprised if her family disowned her after what she wrote. She has a heart made of stone and so you,Shlomotion.
In all honesty,I'd call you a modern day Julius Streicher. For those who don't know who this guy,he ran a newspaper called "Der Sturmer." That newspaper was notorious for attacking Jews simply because they existed. You would have loved that paper,Schlockmotion,because it reveled in anti-Jewish filth,the same as you do. Anna Breslaw would have made a perfect contributor to that newspaper. You also would have been a contributor,considering how much you hate Jews.

Schlomotion

It is exactly that kind of wolf-calling that makes charges of antisemitism laughable.

Ghostwriter

You're unbelievable,Schlomotion. You can't respond to anything I wrote so you attack me. Deep down,you know what I'm saying is the truth. But,you're such a hate-filled jerk that you don't care. You don't care about anyone other than yourself. I hope some day you get a brain and a heart because it seems you have neither.

marios

Socialists are at least gullible people if not intentionally liars. Their ignorance are shocking. Holocaust is only genocide based on purely people nationality. Only because they were Jews they were killed by Nazis. We must remember it to not allow to repeat next Holocaust. Islam is supremacists political ideology to conquer all the world. By Koran world divided on Muslims (believers in Allah) and infidels (unbelievers: Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc). There is two choices: Convert or die. They demonstrated it hundreds times. As per Koran:
War is ordained by Allah, and all Muslims must be willing to fight, whether they like it or not. Q 2:216
Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. Q2:191-2
80% of Koran are alike above ones.

marios

About Indians genocide it is myth concocted by Liberals, socialists. Read Michael Medved great book " 10 big lies about America".
About African genocide during the slave trade: it is myth again. Non of whites including of course Americans ran and catch them in Africa. They were sold by their own tribes leaders, they were slaved and sold as prisoners by winner's of tribal war leader, they were sold by Muslims who were the biggest slave traders for centuries. By the way slavery was banned in 1999 in Muslim country Mauricio. Slavery was banned (but still used) in Saudi Arabia in 1966.

BS77

Schlomotion is a stand out narcissist and promoter of outrage…except he provokes nothing. His soul is barren
and his words are only to shock. Ignore this bug.

κατεργάζομαι

Replying to Looking4Strife – (QUOTE) "Somehow, Scripture just doesn't seem to carry the same weight coming from you. "

The Jewish sympathy propaganda machine at work, while they continue to pick our pockets.

alex1232?

Like it or not, these people went through horrors that you and I can only begin to think about. If someone was to pull your neighbor out of there home and stick them in cattle cars and you feel no sympathy, then you are no better than the Nazis.